Thanks Andy. I didn't realize that ColdBox had REST baked in, I'll have to look in to that. I know that there's been some buzz lately about REST with Mach-II as well, but I haven't had a chance to look into any of it either.
Thanks, Eric Cobb ECAR Technologies, LLC http://www.ecartech.com http://www.cfgears.com On 1/28/2011 8:12 PM, andy matthews wrote: > Also, consider looking into ColdBox. It's built from the ground up to allow > for REST: > > http://www.simonfree.com/presentations/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Cobb [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 8:20 AM > To: cf-talk > Subject: Should I build my app as an API? > > > I'm getting ready to start working on what I hope is to become a pretty > large side project. Right now I'm in the planning phases, and one of > the (eventual) plans is to have a full API that others can use to > interact with the site. When thinking about this, I came up with an > idea that I wanted to run by you guys to get some opinions. > > Instead of taking the usual approach of building the site like I want > then adding an API to it, what if I were to just build out the API > first, then build my site off of that API? Has anyone ever done this, > or have any ideas on this? > > I'm really hoping to get a good discussion going on this, so please let > me know what you think! > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:341710 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
